The timeline of Earth, mankind and the universe has been mapped out

Source: News.com.au

CONTINENTS fuse, galaxies collide, man dies out and the Earth plunges into the Sun.

This is what will happen in the future (but don’t worry, you’ve got a few quintillion years yet).

We find it hard enough to plan ahead to the weekend, but some scientists have mapped out what will happen to the Earth and the universe’s major events all the way to over one hundred quintillion years from now.

BBC Future created a meandering infographic based on research and hypothesis from scientists and NASA with major natural milestones laid out in front of our worrying eyes. The ambitious predictions begin around one thousand years from now, when most of our words would have become extinct, up to the moment when the Earth stops spinning and falls into the Sun.

We’ve plucked the biggest events worth looking out for (if you live to one hundred quadrillion years old, that is). These are all years from now:

One thousand years to ten thousand years from now. Source: Supplied

1,000: If civilisation fails to make it another thousand years, all the buildings, dams and bridges decay and fall

1,000: Most words are extinct due to the rapid evolution of languages

2,000: Greenland ice sheet melts

5,125: Mayan time ends again. World didn’t come to an end last time. Probably won’t next time.